What I'd want to see is a more direct controlled party leader with gambit controlled party members. That stops the plays itself complaints people had with the system and gives you the whole 'leader' feel that games like Persona 3 and Dragon Quest 4(nes) have tried before with forced AI. Except unlike those games you wouldn't have to worry about shitty AI, because you make the AI.

I!m with you guys on the story department. As much as I love my Elder Scrolls or Fallout I don't want my Final Fantasy to become like it. If it were a spin off I would like Square to make a Final Fantasy more like Demon's/Dark Souls, it seems much more likely for them to achieve this than something like Skyrim in the open world department. They already have a lot of Final Fantasy lore they can use, tons of classes, spells.

As for what Prime Mover said, even though I've enjoyed most of the recent FFs I totally support your thoughts. Even if the games did some amazing stuff on one side, they have a problem on another. Even FFX that I put among my favorites, I have to agree about it not having interesting locales.

Maybe this is why recently SE have decided to do spin offs of almost every FF game. If anything, at least we may have some good feelings remembering those places.

speaking of rumours today kotaku reported that versus 13 is dead and that sqeenix has decided to keep it quiet so not to ruffle the stock. if that's the case i hope they hit those bullet points cause after watching the versus 13 gameplay trailer i see what the hype was about. i wouldn't be so surprised if they fold versus 13 into 15 somehow.

speaking of rumours today kotaku reported that versus 13 is dead and that sqeenix has decided to keep it quiet so not to ruffle the stock. if that's the case i hope they hit those bullet points cause after watching the versus 13 gameplay trailer i see what the hype was about. i wouldn't be so surprised if they fold versus 13 into 15 somehow.

They're crazy if they think they can keep anything quiet nowadays. Versus XIII is way, way too highly anticipated for that.

The most reasonable thing that SE could do is changing the name of the game like did with Agito XIII to Type-0.

Type-0 instead of having direct connections to the XIII universe it only has (to my understanding at the moment since I haven't play the game yet) references that link both titles together for the sake of the whole Fabula Nova Crystallis series, which when was originally announced was called "Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy XIII" and all the three games announced with the project had the "XIII" in the title to make the connection more obvious to the public somehow.

Though, in the case that Versus XIII is renamed to be the new FFXV that would be kinda weird since along with Type-0 was said to be part of the Fabula Nova series, and in a way that what's makes it interesting.

Edit: Now that I remember there's the track "Somnus" on Theatrhythm listed as a song from Final Fantasy Versus XIII. So that's something important to consider too I guess.

I don't know why they are releasing all these sequels? Are there even people who rather have a XIII sequel instead of a brand new FF? Everyone loves the PS1 FFs, why did they have to change how it was back then?